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It's strange. I have a lot of family in Vermont. I spent a number of summers there back in the late 50's and early 60's. It was soooo conservative and a wonderful place to be. Something happened and the whole state and in particular it's politicians have gone far, far left. Went back there afew years ago. It's a beautiful state but they allow NOTHING like Costcos or theme parks or anything you would see in modern America. It wants to remain "quaint". The Ma and Pa country stores etc. Fine if you don't mind paying $6 for a gallon of milk etc. After you get tired of looking at the green mountains you realize there is nothing to do here. The locals primarily go to New Hamshire to shop as they have the big box stores and so on. It's become a very dull, mundane place. Sad. As far as Venezuela goes if only Bernie would go down and explain to them how they are doing socialism wrong I'm sure things would be just fine. | |||
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I would venture that wanting things to stay as they were is in fact the very definition of conservative. AFAIK, Vermont also has the most liberal (in the original sense) gun laws of the US (though admittedly I was told that about 20 years ago, so things may have changed). | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
The problem in Venezuela is that they've had a generation and more that have become accustomed to living on free stuff and can't or won't put out much effort to get it the old fashioned way. Their oil wealth allowed their rulers to prolong the charade longer than most other dictators. The guy that is trying to replace him isn't all that much different. He's socialism light. The majority of the population doesn't want an opportunity to earn their stuff, they just want the free stuff to return like it was before. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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If the majority does not have the will to work, let them live like that until they get hungry, very hungry. -c1steve | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Hoooooooooooyyyyyassssssrrrrrhh! Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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| SIGforum's Berlin Correspondent |
Probably not worth its own thread, so I'll just stick this here.
https://www.popularmechanics.c...cruise-ship-collide/ | |||
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Win for the Cruise Industry. Looks like Venezuela lost 25% of that class ship in the skirmish. Here's pictures of the RGCS Resolute's damage: Some chipped paint. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...an-cruise-liner.html  This message has been edited. Last edited by: braillediver, ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Where can I get a cool "overmask" with bling like the guy behind Maduro?  Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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The Venezuelans are unhinged. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Some stooopid Venezuelan Naval Officer didn't get the memo that ramming went out of style in Naval Warfare centuries ago... I'm sure it sounded cool to radio his commander that he "was going to ram the invader", but when he got back to shore all wet and without a ship... I imagine the commander was less than pleased... | |||
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Don't bring a patrol boat to a ship fight ... | |||
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 Nicolás Maduro has outlived his usefulness... "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Maybe if it had been a Persian ship, they would have had more success? ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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| SF Jake |
Ya know those times when “it sounded like a good idea at the time?” This shouldn’t have been one of them! ________________________ Those who trade liberty for security have neither | |||
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| Uppity Helot |
Nice Job commie fucktards! | |||
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RCGS Resolute 8,445 tons ANBV Naiguatá 1,720 tons Clearly the captain of the patrol boat failed physics as its not a good idea to play bumper-ships when you're out-classed by nearly 7000-tons | |||
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Photo of Venezuelan captain released:  Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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Did the captain say “Hold my beer and watch this”? | |||
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Festina Lente |
The Law of Gross Tonnage is an accepted nautical convention that when a sea-going vessel has the right-of-way as established by the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), it should nonetheless give way when faced with a larger vessel. This law is regularly invoked in non-maritime situations, such as when a bicyclist with the right-of-way invokes the Law of Gross Tonnage to avoid the Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) that is about to cut them off. The heavier vessel always has the right-of-way. There is no explicit directive in maritime regulations or law for the the Law of Gross Tonnage other than it is common sense that giving way and being alive is usually better than forcing one's right-of-way and being dead. https://www.everything2.com/ti...Law+of+Gross+Tonnage NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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